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UNITED STATES PATENT A OFFICE.

ADAM I/VUEST, JR., OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

MATTRESS-FILLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,450, dated December 9, 1902.

Application filed January 3, 1902. Serial No. 88,357. (No model.)

To all whom, i r11/ty concern.'

Be it known that I, ADAM VUEST, Jr., a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident of No. 1231 Beech avenue, in the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Chio, (post-office address 217 East Third street, in the city of Cinciiinati,) have invented an Improvement in lllattress-Filling Machines; and l do herebydeclare that the followingis a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to mattress-filling machines; and it has for its object the improvement in the construction of such devices whereby they are simplilied and rendered more efficient.

The novelty of myinvention consists inthe combination and subcombination of the parts, as Will be hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a sectional view of my invention, taken on line 1 1 of Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a side elevation; Fig. 3 is a front elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the adjustable side piece A7. Fig. 5 is a detail, partially in section, showing how press-box is attached to apron. Fig. 6 shows a modification of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan view. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of press-box. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of guides projecting in front of machine. Fig. 10 is a sectional viewshowing the position of the rear end of the pan C3 when the pan is in the mattress.

In the drawings, A represents the frame of the machine, which has attached to its upper art at A2 a swinging com ression-roll A3 so arranged that the distance from A2 can he increased or decreased at pleasure by means of the bevel-gears A4 and screws A5. The swinging compression-roll A3 is provided With a cord As and Weight A, so that when the compression-roll is released from A7 it will raise up out of the way. Attached to the compression-roll are tWo stops A6 and A10, which hold the compression-roll in position when it is down, compressing the lling material. The

automatically and vertically adjustable side piece A7 is provided with a notch A, which catches on the stop A10, the spring A12 causing the side piece A7 to spring up and catch on A10. The rolls B, B2, and B3 have an apron C passing over them, being rolled and nnrolled from the rolls B B2, the roll B3 acting as an idler. The apron is provided With a suitable support A13. Attached to the apron is an angle-piece C2, used for forcing the pan C into and extracting it from the ticking. The rolls B and B2 have on one end sprocket- Wheels B4 and B5, connected by sprocketchain B6. On the opposite end I provide a gear-Wheel Bland pinion B8. The side boards E E are arranged to slide on the rods E2 and are provided with set-screws E3 for holding the side boards in position. Slate F F F F F are provided for placing on top of the filling before compression. Gates Gr G are supported by the roll Gr2 and pass down between the rolls B B2. Projecting from the front of the machiue'is a laterally-adjustable guide H, which is automatically adjustable vertically.

The operation of my machine is as follows: The gates are placed in position, the pressbox and projecting guides are arranged to suit the size of mattress to be filled, the lling material placed in press-box, the pressureslats placed on top of filling materiah'the compression-roll is brought into position to compress the filling material to any thickness desired, the press-box having been set back from gates far enough to get the proper forward compression, (forward compression elimininates soft or weak spots,) the crank attached to the pinion is turned, pushing for- Ward the press-box. When the material has been compressed endWise sufficiently, the gates are removed permitting the filling material to enter the ticking. The ticking having been previously placed on the projecting guides, the press-box passes into the ticking with the filling material. Afterward it is removed by reversing the travel of the apron, leaving the filling material in the ticking.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. The combination in a mattress-filling machine of a laterally and vertically adjustable press-box with a laterally, adjustable, projecting guide which is vertically, automatically adjustable, substantially ask described.

2.v .The combination in a mattress-filling machine of a laterally and vertically, adj ust- IOO compression-roll, a laterally-adjustable projecting guide which is automatically adjustable vertically, substantially as described.

5. The combination in a mattress-filling machine of a laterally and vertically adjustable press-box, arranged to be propelled by a traveling apron, winding around rolls, angle-pieces attached to apron, an adjustable compression-roll, held in place by automatic catch, a laterally-adjustable projecting guide which is automatically adjustable vertically, substantially as described.

ADAM WUEST, JHl

Witnesses:

C. M. FAHNEsTooK, CHARLES GLINDMEIER, 

